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Today the local, state and federal environment ministers met to discuss solutions to a mounting recycling crisis.
China's ban on exporting foreign waste has left Australia with an extra 1.3 million tonnes of recyclables each year....

An investigation by Melbourne City Council has upheld sexual harassment allegations against former Lord Mayor Robert Doyle. Mr Doyle took leave last year after two female Councillors, Tessa Sullivan and Catheirne Oke, accused him of sexually harassing them. The investigators found the ...

Have you ever had a dispute with your neighbour over a tree? Maybe their fruit or leaves have clogged up your gutters? What about a branch growing over the boundary fence? In Victoria, neighbourhood tree disputes are so common that the state's main resolution body receives 10 calls a day from ...

Conservative academic Patrick Deneen has written a searing critique on the demise of Liberalism. He argues that though Liberalism won the battle of ideas in the 20th century, it is doomed to failure due to its inherent contradictions. He says Liberalism has promised equality, but delivered ...

The critically acclaimed and eerily beautiful movie Picnic at Hanging Rock is basically Australian folklore The story is about a group of Victorian schoolgirls who mysteriously disappear at Hanging Rock in central Victoria... Now the local council has organised an event called 'unleash your ...